Reframing Authority

1. Reframing Authority - The Role of Media and Materiality Laura Feldt and Christian Hogel

Section 1: Authority, Materiality and Premodern Literary Media 2. Authority, Space, and Literary Media - Eucherius' Epistula de laude eremi and authority changes in late antique Gaul Laura Feldt 3. The Authority of Translators. Vendors, Manufacturers, and Materiality in the Transfer of Barlaam and Josaphat along the Silk Road Christian Hogel 4. The Material and the Implied Library. Book Collections, Media History, and Authority in 12th Century Papal Europe Lars Boje Mortensen, University of Southern Denmark

Section 2: Claiming Authority through Forms of Materiality - Ancient and Modern 5. Claiming Authority in the Sphere of Roman `Deathscapes': Tomb 100 in the Isola Sacra Necropolis Jane Hjarl Petersen, University of Southern Denmark 6. The Resurrection of the Body. Authoritative Creed, Materiality, and Changes in Popular Belief in Denmark in the 18th and 19th Centuries Martin Rheinheimer, University of Southern Denmark 7. Myth, Materiality, and Book of Mormon Apologetics: A Sacred Text and its Interpreters Olav Hammer, University of Southern Denmark

Section 3: Authority, Media and Modern Identity Politics 8. Between Progress and the Frontier. Authority and Mob Violence in The Gonzales Inquirer at the Turn of the Twentieth Century Anne Magnussen, University of Southern Denmark 9. Resisting the Silence: The Emergence of the Danish Jewish Congregational Magazine and its Reorientation of Communal Authority Maja Gildin Zuckerman, Stanford University 10. The Multiple Faces of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk: Authority, Iconography, and Subjectivity in Modern Turkey Dietrich Jung, University of Southern Denmark 11. A Tradition in Need of How-To Books: The Revitalization of Traditional Rituals and Lifestyle among Smarta Brahmins of South India Mikael Aktor, University of Southern Denmark